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By contrast, immigrants in Western Europe were invited to fill low-status jobs, creating a built-in incentive for natives to see them and their children as a servant class, incapable of entering, let alone leading, the larger society.
In such cases, drug companies gain a powerful incentive to mislead doctors and the public about their products’ safety and effectiveness, and even to promote their drugs for inappropriate uses, often using innovative side-payments to persuade doctors to prescribe them.
Others argued that such a tax fails to target the underlying incentive problems in financial markets, as if we had an effective, well-proven alternative to achieve that end.
That would be quite an incentive for self-monitoring.
Moreover, international provisions in the pending tax legislation will give US multinationals an even greater incentive to invest, hire, and produce abroad, while using transfer pricing and other schemes to salt away profits in low-tax jurisdictions.
With a slowdown in accession negotiations, Turkish politicians will have less incentive to continue the reforms necessary for membership.
For one thing, police officers often lack the resources or incentive to do their jobs properly.
The gas agreement, moreover, undermines Ukraine’s incentive to reform its inefficient and corrupt energy sector, and commits the country to buy more gas in subsequent years than it may need.
At the same time, above certain income levels, a person might require a substantial monetary incentive to take the quality-of-life hit associated with increased work responsibilities.
All ratings of financial products raise the same incentive problems and could benefit from reform.
Standard & Poor argued that such a mechanism would provide credit rating agencies with “less incentive to compete with one another, pursue innovation, and improve their models, criteria, and methodologies.”
When domestic strategies go wrong, other countries may be hurt; but it is the home economy that pays the steepest price – which is incentive enough for governments not to pursue the wrong kind of policies.
So they have little incentive to demobilize.
The funds respond to such proposals by arguing that if they are required to reveal their investment strategies, they will lose their incentive to innovate, and a recent US government report – a multi-agency effort headed by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (formerly of Goldman Sachs) – supports that position.
As a result, all financial institutions gain a powerful incentive to bulk up (and borrow more) in hope of also becoming bigger and therefore “safer” (from creditors’ point of view, not from a social perspective.)
A third policy change aimed at promoting urbanization will be to allow Chinese farmers to sell their land rights at realistic market prices, thereby increasing their incentive to cash out and move.
They must use not just monetary policy, but also fiscal tools, to support spending and strengthen the incentive to invest.
Indeed, the academic literature was chock-full of models of financial bubbles, asymmetric information, incentive distortions, self-fulfilling crises, and systemic risk.
Because the IMF lends money on a short-term basis, there was an incentive to ignore the effects of austerity in order to arrive at growth projections that imply an ability to repay.
The difference between the cost of a full-time employee with benefits and an independent contractor can be 30% or more, so there is a strong incentive for companies to replace workers on standard full-time employment contracts with independent contractors as long as companies can attract the talent they need.
As a consequence of both the high US tax rate and deferral, US-based MNCs have a strong incentive to keep their foreign earnings abroad.
And who else has an incentive to maximize the amount of debt that they issue?
As the minimum wage is increased, employers’ incentive to substitute equipment or more skilled employees strengthens.
Adopting a common “rule of origin” for their products would be an incentive to liberalize their international trade further, thus increasing it.
It argued that giving Moore a property right to his tissue would "destroy the economic incentive to conduct important medical research."
The threat of capital flight to nearby political entities creates a strong incentive to keep policies market-friendly, but it is suppressed when neighboring political entities coalesce.
The US has cast aside one of its most important foreign policy tools, creating an incentive for the Syrian government and its supporters to keep fighting until they are in the most advantageous position possible to negotiate a settlement – that is, if they have any incentive to negotiate at all.
The old elites remain, locked inside their gated communities, fending off the poor, whom they have no incentive to empower, because plentiful cheap labor is so beneficial to those who employ it.
The Israelis discerned Abbas’s weakness early on, and once Hamas was elected in a landslide, had little incentive to help him despite the prodding of the United States.
But only the first 5% of their wealth can be justified as an economic incentive to encourage entrepreneurship and enterprise.
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